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THE

CHINA MAIL.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931.

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SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu,

SHINYO MARU

ASAMA MARU

Tuesday, 20th January. Wednesday, 4th February. SEATTLE, VICTORIA vía Shanghai & Japan Ports.

21st January. Thursday, 12th February.

HIYE MARU (Leave from Kobe).. Wednesday, HIKAWA MARU

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM vina

KATORI MARU

KASHIMA MARU

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez

Saturday, 24th January. Saturday,

7th February.

22nd January.

10th February,

27th January.

30th January.

KAMO MARU

KITANO MARU

TOTTORI MARU

Thursday,

Thursday,

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Sunday,

1st February. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,

KAWACHI MARU

Saturday, 21st February.

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.

ATAGO MARU

Fridus,

6th February.

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Monday, Sunday,

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Sunday,

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Thursday,

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18th January. 29th January.

LYONS MARU

Monday,

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19th January. 20th January. 23rd January. 20th January.

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S. K.

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG

TERDAM & ANTWERP

SURJECT TO ALTERATION.

Mon.,

9th Feb,

LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT- Atina Maru

vin Singapore, Colombo,

Suez & Port Said.

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS La Plata Maru

Fri.,

6th Feb.

& BUENOS AIRES via

Salgon, Singapore, Colom

bo, Durban & Capetown.

BOMBAY via Singapore & Borneo Maru

Mon.,

Colombo.

DURBAN, LOURENCO Chicago Maru

Thurs.,

10th Jan.

6th Feb.

MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-

ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR

& MOMBASA via Bloga-

& Colombo.

MELBOURNE via

Manila, Melbourne Maru

Brisbano & Sydney.

pore

CALCUTTA via Singapore & Himalaya Maru ....

Wed.,

Tues

20th Jan.

Rangoon.

VICTORIA,

SEATTLE, Africa Maru (From

TACOMA & VANCOUVER

Shanghal)

Sat

24th Jan.

vin Japan Ports.

NEW YORK via Japan ports,

Los Angoles & Panama.

Call Direct at Bonton, Philadelphin & Baltimore.

JAPAN PORTS (Freight Ser-;

vice)

HAIPHONG via. Hoihow & Menado Maru

KEELUNG via Swikow

Pakhoi (Fortnightly).

&

Nooni

Installation and Repairs of Diana Engine and Motore Loe Marine and Ballonary

■ speciality.

MOTOR SHIPYARD,

LOCAL PLANT NOW IN FULL

WORKING ORDER.

few

a slab. A big slab. He could bring it. home In the ship in two and a half years' time, and there wouldn't be another Ike it in the whole cemetery. In the meanwhile the woman next door would look after the children.

The public will probably be in- .* The Drafting Commander saw terested to learn that the Ship another face he remembered. Ayard of the South China Motor- man who had requested to see him Shipbuilding & Repairing Works,

was opened a pen-name privately. Nine of this rating'e itd., which

fourteen years' service had been months ago, and all the plant and spent abroad: he had only been achinery of which has been pur- home from China six months, and chased from Europe at a very rea- there were reasons-he gave them sonable rate of exchange, is now alone in the room while the banish-in full working order, and as also ed Drafting Master-at-Arms and the preliminary organisation is Chief Writer discussed the chances completed, the Shipyard may now of the depot football team with Ko into the work for the further dignified detachment

on the other lay-out.

Not Idic. side of the closed door-why he wanted to stay at home a little longer.

Everyone who has read "Naval

stories of the lighter side of naval life during the Great War, will be

the with familiar "Bartimeus." "Naval Occasions" proved its immense popularity by the sale of upwards of one million copies. The following is the first, of several articles on the Navy of the present day which "Bartimeus" has written for the Morning Post. The rear file of the draft die appeared through the dockyard gates: the music of the band grew A battleship's crew had fainter. marched out of barracks to com- mission what was to be their home for the next two and a half years.

The Drafting Commander stood at the window of his office as the misty shore-houses and sall-lofts of the Yard flung back the dwindling echoes. "A sailor's wife a sailor's star shall be...."

A thousand men marching off to an unknown destiny, with their bags and hammocks, their ditty boxes and their gas masks, techni- cally at his bidding. He had said. "Go," and they went.

The Drafting Commander listen- ed to them: they were intimate, pathetic, but of a variety that his Majesty's Service, which cannot afford to be too concerned with the private affairs of it servants, did not recognise.

"The numbers are cut to the bone," he had explained, wondering, as he met the man's miserable eyes, if he would ever acquire the bowela of cast-iron the job required. "We are working on the barest margin. not because wo

want to, but bo- Actually a Writer had sat in the cause that is what we are given to adjoining room with a drawer of work with. It's what is called cards at his elbow. Each card bore National Economy. If I told you a man's name: they were arranged up from draft another man must That in the sequence in which the bear- go instead: out of his turn.

names had returned would be unfair to him I am sorry ers of those from foreign service. It was call-awfully sorry, but you must go." ed the Longest-at-home Roster,

Working from the top down the Writer transcribed the names into

a book. The book

went to the

So he went, and the Drafting Commander watched his face as he stood listening impassively to the Commodore's exhortations to re- member at all times and in all places the credit of the Port Divi- he belonged. To-

which

It is of interest to note that the Shipyard has not been idle during these few months, as al- ready two smaller crafts have been built and two further orders have been received, beaides the two motorships which are now under- construction and the keels of which were laid down

on January 13. Besides these new constructions

there is repais work in hand, so that the Shipyard can he well

atlsfied with the beginning.

STEAM OR OIL.

THE TWO MOTOR POWERS BECOMING STABILISED,

In a

contemporary, Engineer Rear-Admiral W. Scott Hill, of Sir J. H. Biles and Co., makes some statements which call for comment, says the Motor Ship. He says that on June 30 an extract from Lloyd's

47.5 per Register showed

cent. motor ship horse-power under con- struction and on September 80 this had fallen to 43 per cent. He pre- sumably refers only to the United clear. The figures for the world are 58.6 per cent. and 52.5 per cent. respectively, including Russia. The reduction in the world-percentage is mainly due to the commencement in Italy during the quarter of two ahina with turbine machinery of 208,000 h.p., and the construction

Drafting Master-at-Arms, who in 4th Feb.. his turn transferred the names to

a notice-board in the drill shed, slon to The ratings concerned were "warn-morrow hia Captain would exhort Kingdom, although this is not made ed for draft." If any man thought him to be a credit to his ship, and he had been chosen out of his turn a few weeks the Lieutenant of he saw the Drafting Commander, his Division would invite him to do things to the glory of his Division. and his case was investigated.

Some had been home from abroad And perhaps in a little while he nearly a year.

some six months, some less. It depended on the numbers available in their branch and what was called the Mancing daunted by the grey surroundings of two such vessels would hardly!

Thurs.,

22nd Jan.

(Every Sunday Canton Maru... Suc..

TAKAO via Swatow & Amoy |

(Fortnightly).

For further particulars please apply to:-

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

Telephone 2806)

STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS

The B.I. 8.8. Talamba will leave Amoy for this port on January 17, p.m., and is due here on Janu- ary 18, p.m.

The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of

· Russia arrived at Yokohama on January 14 (Wed.) at 2 p.m., loft Yokohama on January 16 (Thurs.) at 3 p.m., and is due at Vancouver on January 24 (Sat). She leaves Vancouver on January 31 (Bat.).

18th Jan.

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

The fallowing British warships were in harbour to-day:

Berwick-North arm. Cornflower-lu dock Herald-South well. Hermes-No. 1' buoy. Iroquois North wall. Marazion-East wall. Medway-West wall. Oswald-In dock. Osiris-In dock. Sandwich-No. 12 buoy,

SHIPBUILDERS,

SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND

ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

Situation. A lot had ailing wives, some were widowers with children. Scores had said good-bye for the last time to the person dearest to them on earth. By the law of mere nature of averages, In the things, several would never come

back.

would forget.

".... bis atar shall be." The music of the distant band, as if

justify any general conclusion re- garding the future of shipping.

where tripod masts and superim- posed turrets loomed above dock walls, grew faint and died away. Moreover, it is well known that The Drafting Commander turned Lloyd's figures for the power of and sat machinery away from the window

are Incomplete, since down at his desk. There were re they are supplied by the builders quest men to be interviewed, ad- and are not prepared by Lloyd's vancements to be scrutinised and surveyors themselves, as are the de- All these things fitted through confirmed, men to be pulled in from tails relating to tonnage of ships the mind of the Drafting Com-ships in harbour for training under construction. For instance, and for the daily wastage of tho stated to be 88 oil engines building classes, reliefs to be found for them in the last returne there were Fleet, men to take the places of the in Great Britain and 98 motor sick, the dead, the time expired.

ships. Figures of tonnage are "Roquest men, Sir!" In they filed obviously the only safe source of his conscience, the Drafting Re- one after the other, and as far as comparisons. gulations, and National Economy gave each man his

mander as he stood by the window, Five minutes earlier he had stood beside the Commodore while to ad- dressed the blue-clad ranks in a little speech of farewell. He had scanned the rows of facea wonder- ing what was in their minds.

Here and there he saw the face of a request man he remembered having interviewed. Ono

Was a

man who had volunteered for the station. He was a widower with

cent. of the

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YOU THE

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Feb. 12 Feb. 20

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LTH Leave Empress of Japan Feb. 5 Feb, 8 Feb., 10 Empress of Asla* Feb. 18 Feb. 21 Feb. 24 Feb. 28 Mar. Empress of Canada Mat. 5 Mar. 8 Mar. 10 Mar. 12 Mar. 21 Empress of Russia" Mar. 18 Mar. 21 Mar. 24 Mar. 26 Apr. 4 Empress of Japan Apr. 1 Apr. 4 Apr. 7 Apr. 9 Apr. 17 Empress of Asia* Apr. 10 Apr. 13 Apr. 16 Apr. 18 Apr. 27 Empress of Canada? Apr. 25 Apr. 28 Apr. 30 May 2 May 14 Empresa of Russia Miny 8 May 11 May 14 May 16 May 25 Empress of Japan; May 23 May 20 May 28 May 30 Juna 10 Emprem of Aafa" June 5 June 8 June 11 June 13 June 22 Empress of Canada June 20 June 23 June 25 June 27 July Empress of Ruanla July 3 July 6 July 9 July 11 July 20 5 Empress of Japan July 18 July 21 July 29 July 25 Aug. Empress of Asia July 31 Aug, 3 Aug. 6 Aug. 8 Aug. 17 Empress of Canada Aug. 15 Aug. 18 Aug. 20 Aug. 22 Aug. 30

*(Cali at Nagasaki the day after departure from Shanghai) †Calls at Honolulu on May 8. Calls at Honolulu on June &.

HONG KONG MANILA SERVICE.

Leave Arrive

Hong Kong Manila Emp. of Canada Feb. 7 Feb. 9 Feb. 25 Emp. of Russia Feb. 23

Telephones: Passenger .. 20752 Freight. 20042

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BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

JANUARY SAILINGS.

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Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wuchow 2 p.m. 8.8. "TAI HING" (1,008 tons Capt. Tratt.]

JANUARY.

MON. 19th SUN. 25th

FRL

201

The Sai Kong (or the West River) is the third largest river in the Chinese Republic and second only to the Yangtaze in Import- ance. This magnificent trado (619 tons-Capt. W. H. Lawton.} raute was opened to foreign traffic In 1897, but how many foreign- Cis travel on this

important

8.S. TAI MING"

JANUARY.

16th FRI. WED. 21st

TUES.

27th

waterway? The scenery along the For information apply to--- route is beautiful. We recommend

SANG WO

Co.,

Lid.,

it, to any person who wishes to spend a short and economical holl- 29, Commsught Road, West.

day.

We are,

however, Inclined to agree with Engineer Rear-Admiral allowed, he

Scott Hill when he says "there is desire.

some evidence that the proportion The last requested a private in of shipping using the two motive terview. The customary

with-

power (steam and oil engines res- five small children. He had beard drawal took place, and the suppectively) is at present tending to

pliant, a short, thickeet individual become stabilised." that marble was cheap out there with grizzled curly hair, rolled his At present 63. per he had jerked his head vaguely in eyes, sighed deeply, and said: "I'd world tonnage being built is to be the direction in which he supposed thank you to send me to a ship equipped with oll engines and 87 Italy to lie and he wanted to buy down the harbour, Sir," "Where per cent. with steara machinery.

are you now?" "Here in Barracks, Oil-engine builders are not dis Sir." "Yes-well!"

satisfied that nearly two-thirds of The eyes rolled still more wildiy. the tonnage' built is to be supplied "And when I goce jashore I has to with internal-combustion Ina- go out through the main gata."

chinery. "Quite." "But if I was to go to a Engineer Rear-Admiral Scott ship down the harbour I'd land Hill also refers to the paper of Mr. somewhere else." "Yes, I follow Muller (Superintendent Engineer of that. But what's your objection to the Koninklijke Paketvaart Maat going out through the main gate?"chappij) before the Institute of "There's a young lady got a habit || Fuel The former stated that in of waiting there for me, Bir." their larger vessels the owners in "Well, what of it? What's your ob- question Jection to that?" "I don't wish to

"were thoroughly satisfied with Tal meet her, Sir." "Why not, for

their mechanically fired coal Heaven's sake?" "She's got a hat-

ships and have recently added pin in her, and, Sir." The request two 10,000-ton turbine vessels to man pursed up his lips and sighed. their fleet, which were originally There was a pause. "I see. All' Intended to be motor ships”. right. I'll soe. what can be done,"

The inference is that the oWDEIB "And even now," murmured the studied the recent developments of conscientious Drafting Commander turbine and Internal-combustion sa he turned to his papers after the machinery, deciding in favour of request man had withdrawa"even the former, Phong now I haven't pleased averybody." There's the young lady

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ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.

Wednesday, Jan. 14. Ichang, British str., 1,228 tons,

Capt. J. S. Anderson, from Wuhu, Anchorage.-B. & S. Taiping, British str., 2,582 tons, Capt. A. M." Frame, from Manila, Holt's Wharf.-B. & S. Pos Sek, French str. 1,219 tone, Capt. M. Paul, from K. C. Wan, C.M.S.N. Wharf-Wo Hop & Co.

Thursday, Jan. 15. Changkiang, French str., 1,717, tons, Capt. L J. Crachot, from Shanghai, buoy No. A10- Bing Kae & Cole g Gustav Diederichsen, Danish str. 1,362 tons, Capt. J. Jacobsen, from Canton, Kowloon Wharf --Jebsen & Co. Haru Maru, Japanese str., 1,654.

tone, Capt. S. Takezawa, from Canton, buoy No C8-Hidaka

it was decided. In 1928 to Install Hermad, Norwegian str, 840 tons,

turbines, mainly because there

would only be a little time for

overhauling on each voyage,

Capt CH. Anderson, from Bangkok, buoy, No of

Thoresen & Co.

In other words, the owners did King Yuan, British str., 1,546 tons, (Continued at foot of preceeding

Column)

Captur D. Whyte from Can

ton, buoy No. B9-B. & S. Sungahan · Maru, 'Japanese str.... 1,503 tons, Capt. T. Honjo, from Canton, buoy No. B17.-- NYK. Sunkong, Chinese str., 822 tons,

Capt. Lai Kwong, from K. O. Wan, Satkong Wharf. We Hop & Co.

Taiping, Norwegian str., 4,085 tons, Capt. J. A. Jensen, from Shanghai, buoy No.. A18- Dodwell & Co. Talahan, Panamanian str., 4,057 tons, Capt. A Cristeamin,

from Manila, buoy No. A4, Dedwell & Co. Tal Yuan, British str., 2,100 tons, from B20,

Capt. R. Robertson, Canton, buoy No. B. & §. Talina, British str.; 10,000 tons, Capt. G. Harley, from Cal- -Cutta vin Singapure, Kowloon

Wharf M. M. & Co. Yellun Mara, Japanese str., 1,284 tona, Capt. R. Taketomi, from Canton, buoy No. C1. D.KK. Yingebow. British str., 1,216 tons, Captain W G. Mackenzie,

tow broy No. B3- B 8.